New hybrid engine triples the industry’s average fidelity score while cutting false positives by 60%
PARAMUS, N.J., June 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Checkmarx, the global leader in agentic application security, today announced a major advancement to the Checkmarx One platform: a new hybrid static application security testing (SAST) scanning engine set to deliver the industry’s highest fidelity, known in the industry as an F1 score. AI-accelerated development is driving an unprecedented surge in software vulnerabilities, leaving organizations facing a tsunami of risk that no single scanning approach can address alone.
Neither rules-based analysis nor AI models tell the whole story alone. Deterministic scanning is the precision standard for the languages it covers, but AI-assisted development has introduced new and emerging languages that fall outside any fixed rule set. AI extends coverage to that new ground. However, scanning at volume surfaces findings faster than teams can act on them, burying the vulnerabilities that matter in noise. Today, 49% of code in production is AI generated and measurably more insecure, and exploit windows collapsing from months to minutes. Organizations need both the precision of deterministic analysis and the reach of AI.
